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Annette Lemieux

Hell Text

1991

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  • Artist Annette Lemieux (American, b. 1957)
  • Title Hell Text
  • Date 1991
  • Medium Heat on cotton
  • Dimensions unframed | 54 1/4 x 144 x 1 1/4 in.
  • Credit line University purchase, Bixby Fund, 1993
  • Object number WU 1993.3

The Strange Life of Objects: The Art of Annette Lemieux
Worcester Art Museum, 04/01/2011 - 10/01/2011
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 12/17/2011 - 03/04/2012

Contemporary Art—Selections from the Washington University Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/19/2001 - 03/18/2001

The Art of the '80s: Modern to Postmodern
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/23/1998 - 04/05/1998

The Dual Muse: The Writer as Artist; the Artist as Writer
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 11/07/1997 - 12/21/1997

The Matter of History: Selected Works by Annette Lemieux
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College (Wellesley, Massachusetts), 04/01/1994 - 06/19/1994
Duke University Museum of Art (Durham, North Carolina), 09/09/1994 - 10/30/1994
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 02/03/1995 - 03/26/1995

Twentieth Century Art from the Washington University Collection
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 01/28/1994 - 03/27/1994

The Exuberant Eighties
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 09/10/1992 - 10/30/1992

15th Anniversary Exhibition
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, 05/01/1992

Annette Lemieux
Fondation De Appel (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 12/01/1991 - 01/01/1992
Galerie Montenay (Paris, France), 10/01/1991 - 11/01/1991

1993
Josh Baer Gallery, New York

Inscription [on verso at UR, written on cotton in script in black marker:] Lemieux 1991 "Hell Text"

in the grayness of a november morning they came and told us they are taking us away i still / remember the feeling in the back of my spine it was an absolute indescribable hell i remember / when we had to turn in our pets the old ladies walking in the street carrying their birdcages tears / running down their cheeks we stood there for maybe half a day before even moving you cannot / sit you cannot lie down you are seated in going in one direction one day back the same direction / the next day i really do not know how many nights we were in that living hell on wheels we / were unloaded in the middle of nowhere i did not know where i was in the distance i saw black / smoke subduing the light hell on earth it was announced that there will be no more names used / if you are asked what your name is you have to answer your number if they told you to do / something you went to do it if you made a mistake you could get hit in the face there is no / pity i heard the screams day and night i did not sleep we began to die some went insane / the thought of death was with me for so long it no longer scared me i had lost my protector i / sat in the mud and slime among the dead discarded like so much trash and prayed to god to take me

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